I don't know enough about the structure and formatting of the ECU to ask detailed enough questions to be comfortable with the answer. Some of the things I'm aware of in the ECU are; number of flashes and starts since flash.
That's one of the reasons I save old phones when I upgrade to a new one. I'm using my wifes old Samsung S2 and Torque. Works great. The phone only really needs to be able to run and display an app (Torque) and have bluetooth. You can probably find a good useable used phone with those capabilities really cheap.
You giusto with the Shosche mount, where do you have it mounted in your car? I've been considering this but I'd like to mount the phone somewhere near the center console/gear shift and want to know if that'd work. If you could post a pic, that'd be great!
A cell phone will have certain capabilities even when not connected to a wireless provider. Bluetooth and WiFi will still function, so any apps you have that use that will work. Get the Torque app, and an OBD2 Bluetooth adapter and you will have your dedicated monitor.
Can I use my old Apple Smart Phone to download the Torque App without a service provider?
As long as you can connect to a WiFi spot, you should be able to access iTunes or the app store.
I'm saying OBD Fusion is, from what I hear, almost just like Torque. I'm using it on my iPhone. I'm not sure that I'd recommend it over anything else. It is very flexible and seems to be able to monitor just about everything. I have a Kiwi 3 OBDII adapter. I was convinced it was a good adapter and PLX Devices (made the Kiwi 3 adapter) is also coming out with an app next month. I can't say if it's the adapter or the app but using it for a monitoring solution isn't cutting it. As I mentioned before, I only get about 4 samples per second, I'd really like that to be about 40 samples per second. maybe 10 parameters at 4 times per second.
